Werner Körte (21 October 1853 – 3 December 1937) was a German

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born in Berlin. He was the brother of

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Gustav Körte Gustav Körte (8 February 1852 – 15 August 1917) was a German classical archaeologist. He was the brother of philologist Alfred Körte (1866–1946) and surgeon Werner Körte (1853–1937). Körte was born in Berlin. He studied classical philol ...

(1852–1917) and philologist

Alfred Körte Alfred Körte (September 5, 1866 – September 6, 1946) was a German classical philologist who was a native of Berlin. He was a younger brother to surgeon Werner Körte (1853–1937) and archaeologist Gustav Körte (1852-1917). In 1896 he married ...

(1866–1946). During the Franco-Prussian War, he worked as a volunteer in a ''Typhuslazarett'' in Metz, and in 1875 earned his medical doctorate at the University of Strasbourg. From 1877 to 1879, he was an assistant to

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(1824-1880) at the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin. When Wilms was incapacitated due to illness, he was provisional head at the hospital. From 1889 to 1924, he was director of the ''Krankenhaus Urban'' (Urban Hospital) in Berlin. As a surgeon, Körte specialized in liver, gall bladder and

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operations. From 1899 until 1929, he served as the first secretary of the

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, later being elected an honorary chairman (1930). The singer

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died while undergoing a gall bladder operation under his care on 3 February 1899.

Selected publications

* ''Die Chirurgie der Leber und der Gallenwege'', (Surgery of the liver and gall bladder), 1892. * ''Beiträge zur Chirurgie der Gallenwege'', (Contributions to gall bladder surgery), 1905. * ''Handbuch der Praktischen Chirurgie Kapitel zum Peritoneum'' (Textbook of practical surgery of the peritoneum). * ''Die Deutsche Klinik am Eingange des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts Abschnitt über Mastdarm''.

References

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